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When the Chase for the Sprint Cup began, Matt Kenseth and Kyle Busch would have been on anybody’s list of championship favorites. Each won four times during the regular season and possessed the bona fides to make one think they could successfully navigate NASCAR’s four-round, 10-race knockout playoff format. But Kenseth and Busch find themselves in a position neither expected entering Sunday’s Round 2 elimination race at Talladega Superspeedway…

Greg Rebello By the time he was 21, Greg Rebello could tell that his hockey career was coming to an end. It had been part of his life since a very young age while living on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. He had moved from a very strong high school team to the U.S. junior leagues, but he knew hockey wouldn’t be his future. Still wanting to compete, Rebello started some martial-arts…

Mississippi State pitching coach Butch Thompson has recruited and developed 22 Division I All-America selections and 29 all-conference honorees in his coaching career. (Photo: Mississippi State athletics) AUBURN – Butch Thompson is the new head baseball coach at Auburn University. Multiple sources close to the situation confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser Thursday morning that the Mississippi State pitching coach and Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs came to a verbal agreement late Wednesday evening….

1) Diego Maradona faces six fiercely focused Belgians Camp Nou in Barcelona at the 1982 World Cup in Spain. With the ball at his feet, his famous left foot caressing it as he ponders his next move, Diego Maradona balances on the toes of his right foot surveying the scene ahead of him. Front and centre stands Belgium midfielder Franky Vercauteren with five of his team-mates fanning out in formation…

When the Chase for the Sprint Cup began, Matt Kenseth and Kyle Busch would have been on anybody’s list of championship favorites. Each won four times during the regular season and possessed the bona fides to make one think they could successfully navigate NASCAR’s four-round, 10-race knockout playoff format. But Kenseth and Busch find themselves in a position neither expected entering Sunday’s Round 2 elimination race at Talladega Superspeedway…

Over the past three days, the Blues gave USA Hockey the red-carpet treatment, from meet-and-greets with city officials to tours of the local facilities to fancy dinners and happy hours with stars such as Brett Hull, Chris Pronger and Keith Tkachuk. But in bidding for the right to host the 2018 IIHF World Junior Championships against a city like Pittsburgh, which boasts a five-year-old rink and can trot out Mario…

Mississippi State pitching coach Butch Thompson has recruited and developed 22 Division I All-America selections and 29 all-conference honorees in his coaching career. (Photo: Mississippi State athletics) AUBURN – Butch Thompson is the new head baseball coach at Auburn University. Multiple sources close to the situation confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser Thursday morning that the Mississippi State pitching coach and Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs came to a verbal agreement late Wednesday evening….

A baseball diamond.(Photo: Great West League) GRESHAM, Ore. – A new baseball team is coming to Gresham next summer. The team will be affiliated with the West Coast League, a Northwest summer wood bat league for college-eligible players. Gresham Mayor Shane Bemis and West Coast League President Dennis Koho made the announcement at Mt. Hood Community College, where the team will play its first season. “We are proud to welcome…

0 Shares print Our experts weigh in on four of the biggest questions in NASCAR this week: Turn 1: Was that Joey Logano dump of Matt Kenseth “quintessential NASCAR,” as Brian France said it was? Ricky Craven, ESPN NASCAR analyst: Fact is, it’s great. I hope it is the primary reason paying customers come to the track, to see two drivers square off, rub, beat, bang one another in the…

Who builds a bicycle road on a 32km-long sea dyke? One akin to a really, really long Severn Bridge, made of earthworks, tumbleweed and gulls, with a six-lane highway? The Dutch, that’s who, and I’m grateful for it. With no end in sight, only a straight line of smooth tarmac stretching seemingly to infinity, and bordered on both sides by sea, this bike road on the Afsluitdijk is impressive, if…

Mississippi State pitching coach Butch Thompson has recruited and developed 22 Division I All-America selections and 29 all-conference honorees in his coaching career. (Photo: Mississippi State athletics) AUBURN – Butch Thompson is the new head baseball coach at Auburn University. Multiple sources close to the situation confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser Thursday morning that the Mississippi State pitching coach and Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs came to a verbal agreement late Wednesday evening….

Activision Blizzard is creating an internal e-sports division, the company announced today. With e-sports and streaming becoming so ubiquitous, a move like this isn’t surprising, and it’s likely that other publishers will follow suit. What’s more interesting are the names hired to run the new division: Major League Gaming co-founder and former president Mike Sepso will serve as the division’s Senior Vice President, while Steve Bornstein, who has served as…

Sport is about triumph, passion, pain and belonging. Yet it loses every iota of truth and meaning for fans when dirty money corrupts the players and referees. Unfortunately, in 2015, it’s hard to think of a sport left untouched by the spindly fingers of organized crime and match fixing. It doesn’t matter if you’re into sumo wrestling, NBA, boxing, college football or the English Premier League — at some point,…

0 Shares print Our experts weigh in on four of the biggest questions in NASCAR this week: Turn 1: Was that Joey Logano dump of Matt Kenseth “quintessential NASCAR,” as Brian France said it was? Ricky Craven, ESPN NASCAR analyst: Fact is, it’s great. I hope it is the primary reason paying customers come to the track, to see two drivers square off, rub, beat, bang one another in the…

When NASCAR came up with its new format for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup last year, it made it almost impossible to predict a champion. Now in its second year, the Chase is more random than ever. Some might even say too random. Consider the fate of some of the sport’s biggest stars at playoff time: Jimmie Johnson, a six-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion and four-time race…

The Shreveport Mudbugs will return to action in 2016.(Photo: File/Robert Ruiz/The Times) Dust off the skates, fire up the Zamboni, grab your plastic crustaceans and get ready to let them fly. Mudbugs hockey is back. Tommy Scott, the owner of the Mudbugs franchise when it ceased operations in 2011, has signed a 12-year lease (plus a pair of five-year options) with the State Fair of Louisiana for use of the…

A week ago, as I was leaving soccer training, one of the younger kids, a senior in high school, asked me if I could stay for some time to practice long ball passing drills with him. He was desperate to improve. Me being the charitable man that I am, I obliged. The kids are the future and the least I can do is leave my mark with him so that…

As drivers sweat out potential elimination in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, the jockeying behind closed doors appears just as intense as NASCAR and owners furiously try to hash out a plan to make the team business a more stable one. NASCAR and the owners might not spin each other out, but they have plenty of details to work through. As with a car, any small piece of the…

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